Major talents,
memorable times.
A FEAST OF WORDS
The Triumph of Edith Wharton
Cynthia Griffin Wolff.
University of Massachusetts . " [She] has
brought into view whole dimensions of Edith Wharton-as a person ,
as a woman , as a writer-that I was most imperfectly aware of, if aware
at all .... Her book is a model of the sophisticated combination of psycho–
logical insight and literary sensibility." - R.W.B . Lewis , author of
Edith Wharton :
A
B iography.
464 pp . 8 photographs $15 .95
PROPHETIC WATERS
The River in Early American Life and Literature
John Seelye.
University of North Carolina, Chapel HUI. "Not only
a sweeping reinterpretation of early American history and literature,
but ... a vivid panoramic narrative of our national beginnings, glowing
with wit and insight'.'-Sacvan Bercovitch, Columbia University.
400 pp . 6 maps $15.95
SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH KINGS
History. Chronicles. and Drama
Peter Saccio.
Dartmouth College . An introduction to the events
and persons of medieval history dramatized in Shakespeare's ten
history plays, distinguishing among three versions of that history : the
accounts offered by modern scholars, the Tudor chronicles that provided
Shakespeare's material , and the dramatic action of the plays themselves .
272 pp . Maps cloth $13 .95 ; paper $2 .95
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
ACompact Documentary Life
S. Schoenbaum.
University of Maryland . At last, a popularly priced
edition of the Schoenbaum classic containing the full text , refined and
amplified , 50 of the documents reproduced in smaller format , and new
material including a previously unpublished 17th century portrait .
384 pp . 50 illustrations $12 .50
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,
200 Madison Avenue New York, N .Y. 10016
